Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:10:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Coloured manpages (was: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man Makefile.inc src/share/mk bsd.man.mk src/usr.bin/catman catman.c) Message-ID: <20021015230932.K18455-100000@april.chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <20021016024555.GG72251@regency.nsu.ru>
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:11:56PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 16 October 2002 at 9:36:45 +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:50:46PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 17:33:04 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> 1. Keep the color support turned off for catpages and man(1).
> > >>
> > >> Yes, at least on the disk or through the pipe (generally, when device is
> > >> not display). They are not only displayed on terminal but can be printed
> > >> too or post-processed on some other way.
> > >
> > > Color (and other weird formattig) should be dropped when output is not
> > > tty.
> >
> > Why? That most emphatically does not apply to troff output, and I
> > can't see why it should for nroff.
>
> Uhm.. I was a bit fast on my reasoning (thought about man(1) and ls(1) at
> the first time). {t,n}roff(1) is a different issue, agreed.
Thanks for supporting those of us who still use troff, Greg!
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